rdonkin 2004/02/24 13:45:13
Added: xdocs/site/news news-2004-1stHalf.xml
Log:
Reorganizing news. The news documents have been moved into thenew directory. This
should allow people to link to permenant urls. The old documents have been replaced by
redirects though I may add some entries into the .htaccess file later.
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<document>
<properties>
<author email="jon.AT.latchkey.DOT.com">Jon S. Stevens</author>
<author email="husted.AT.apache.DOT.org">Ted Husted</author>
<author email="tetsuya.AT.apache.DOT.org">Tetsuya Kitahata</author>
<title>News and Status</title>
</properties>
<body>
<section name="Farewell to Martin Pöschl">
<div align='RIGHT'>
<img src='../../images/mpoeschl.jpg' alt='Picture of Martin'/>
<p>
<em><a href='http://www.apache.org/foundation/martin.html'>we miss
you</a></em>
</p>
</div>
</section>
<section name="News & Status">
<a name="20040223.1">
<h3>23 February 2004 - Tomcat 5.0.19 Stable and Tomcat 4.1.30 Stable released</h3>
</a>
<p>
The Tomcat team is pleased to announce that Tomcat 5.0.19 Stable and Tomcat
4.1.30 Stable are now available.
</p>
<p>
Please refer to the changelog included in the releases for the list of changes.
</p>
<p>
<b>Downloads:</b><br/>
BINARY:<a
href='http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi'>http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi</a><br/>
SOURCE:<a
href='http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi'>http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi</a><br/>
</p>
<p>
For more information on Jakarta Tomcat, see the
<a href='http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html'>Tomcat</a>
web site.
</p>
<hr size="1" noshade="noshade" />
<a name="20040221.1">
<h3>21 February 2004 - Velocity Tools 1.1 RC 1 Released</h3>
</a>
<p>
This release includes numerous improvements since the beta1 release.
These include the refinement and completion of TilesTool and ValidatorTool,
a NumberTool for formatting numbers, improved docs and examples, and more.
See the <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/changes.html";>change
log</a>
for a more complete listing.
</p>
<p>
<b>Downloads:</b>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Binaries: <a
href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi";>http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi</a></li>
<li>Source Code: <a
href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi";>http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
For more information on Jakarta Velocity Tools, see the
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/";>Jakarta Velocity Tools</a>
web site.
</p>
<hr size="1" noshade="noshade" />
<a name="20040216.1">
<h3>16 February 2004 - Slide 2.0 Beta 1 Released</h3>
</a>
<p>
<a href='http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/index.html'>Slide</a> is the Jakarta
sub-project
devoted to all matters WebDAV. The venerable Slide 1.x code has been refactored
leading
towards a new, improved 2.x series of releases. Slide 2.0 Beta 1 is an important
milestone
in this process.
</p>
<p>
Binary and source releases are available for download
<a href='http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/download.html'>here</a>.
The following distributions are provided:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Slide bundled with Tomcat either 4.1.29 or 5.0.16
</li>
<li>
Binary distribution mainly containing all jars and a Web Archive (.war)
for easy deployment in Web Containers
</li>
<li>
Binary distribution of the WebDAV client library and command line client
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Full Slide WebDAV server sources</li>
<li>Full Slide WebDAV client sources</li>
</ul>
<hr size="1" noshade="noshade" />
<a name="20040215.1">
<h3>15 February 2004 - Commons HttpClient 2.0 Final Released</h3>
</a>
<p>
The HttpClient team is pleased to announce the release of HttpClient 2.0
final. This release represents a great deal of work by quite a number of
people, and we would like to thank all of those who contributed to this
release.</p>
<p>Only a few small bug fixes are included in this release. For more
details please see the
<a
href="http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/httpclient/RELEASE-NOTES.txt";>release
notes</a>.
</p>
<p>
<b>Downloads:</b><br/>
Binary: <a
href='http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi'>http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi</a><br/>
Source: <a
href='http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi'>http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi</a><br/>
</p>
<p>Please see the HttpClient
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/";>web site</a> for more
information.</p>
<hr size="1" noshade="noshade" />
<a name="20040205.1">
<h3>5 February 2005 - Tapestry 3.0-beta-4</h3>
</a>
<p>
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry/";>Tapestry</a> release 3.0-beta-4 is now
available.
This release incorporates a number of significant bug fixes and improves the
documentation.
If you are building from source, Tapestry will now automatically download external
dependencies (such
as Forrest, DocBook and McKoi DB).
</p>
<p>
Tapestry is available as standard
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi";>source</a> and
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi";>binary</a> distributions.
</p>
<hr size="1" noshade="noshade" />
<a name="20040130.1">
<h3>30 January 2004 - Jakarta POI 2.0 FINAL released</h3>
</a>
<p>
The POI Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Jakarta
POI 2.0-FINAL release.
</p>
<p>WHAT IS POI?</p>
<p>
The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats
based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java.
Support for reading and writing Microsoft Excel files and property
information is mature and work continues on reading and writing the
MS Word format.
</p>
<p>
You can find the website at http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
</p>
<p>
CHANGE LOG:
</p>
<p>
The following major changes have occurred since the 1.5 release:
</p>
<p>
HSSF (for reading and writing spreadsheets):
</p>
<ul>
<li> Numerous bug fixes</li>
<li> Improved support for non-english spreadsheets.</li>
<li> Formula support</li>
<li> Named cells and ranges </li>
<li> Sheet reordering </li>
<li> Zoom support</li>
<li> Freeze and split panes supported </li>
<li> Row and column headers</li>
<li> Custom data formats</li>
<li> Support for cloning objects</li>
<li> Headers and footers</li>
<li> Preservation of VBA macros when rewriting workbooks</li>
<li> Support for hyperlinks by using cell formulas: <br/>
cell.setCellFormula("HYPERLINK(\"http://google.com\",\"Google\";)");</li>
<li> Custom palettes </li>
</ul>
<p>HPSF (for reading document properties):</p>
<ul>
<li> Bug fixes</li>
<li> Codepage support</li>
<li> Read and write support</li>
<li> Custom properties</li>
</ul>
<p>
DOWNLOADS (source and binaries):
</p>
<p>
<a
href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/jakarta/poi/";>http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/jakarta/poi/</a>
</p>
<p>
Regards,
</p>
<p>
The Jakarta POI Team.
</p>
<hr size="1" noshade="noshade" />
<a name="20040125.1">
<h3>25 January 2004 - Commons Collections 3.0 released</h3>
</a>
<p>
The Commons Collections team is pleased to announce that Commons Collections 3.0
release is now available.
</p>
<p>
This is a major release. If you are upgrading, please read the
<a
href='http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/collections/RELEASE-NOTES.html'>release
notes</a>
for more information.
</p>
<p>
<b>Downloads:</b><br/>
Binary: <a
href='http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi'>http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi</a><br/>
Source: <a
href='http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi'>http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi</a><br/>
</p>
<p>
For more information on Jakarta Commons Collections, see the
<a href='http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/collections/index.html'>Collections</a>
web site.
</p>
<hr size="1" noshade="noshade" />
<a name="20040122.1">
<h3>22 January 2004 - Tomcat 5.0.18 Stable released</h3>
</a>
<p>
The Tomcat team is pleased to announce that Tomcat 5.0.18 Stable
is now available.
</p>
<p>
Please refer to the changelog included in the releases for the list of changes.
</p>
<p>
<b>Downloads:</b><br/>
BINARY:<a
href='http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi'>http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi</a><br/>
SOURCE:<a
href='http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi'>http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi</a><br/>
</p>
<p>
For more information on Jakarta Tomcat, see the
<a href='http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html'>Tomcat</a>
web site.
</p>
<hr size="1" noshade="noshade" />
<a name="20040116.1">
<h3>16 January 2004 - Commons HttpClient 2.0 RC 3 Released</h3>
</a>
<p>
The HttpClient team is pleased to announce the third 2.0 release candidate. This
release primarily contains bug fixes. For more details please see the
<a
href="http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/httpclient/RELEASE-NOTES.txt";>release
notes</a>.
</p>
<p>
<b>Downloads:</b><br/>
Binary: <a
href='http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi'>http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi</a><br/>
Source: <a
href='http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi'>http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi</a><br/>
</p>
<p>Please see the HttpClient
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/";>web site</a> for more
information.</p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/>
<h3 align="center">[ <a href="index.html#Newsletter Archive">Newsletters Archive</a>
]</h3>
<h3 align="center">[ Jakarta Product News from 2004 ]</h3>
<h3 align="center">[ <a href="elsewhere-2004-1stHalf.html">Other News from 2004</a>
]</h3>
<h3 align="center">[ <a href="news-2003.html">Jakarta News from 2003</a> ]</h3>
<h3 align="center">[ <a href="elsewhere-2003.html">Other News from 2003</a> ]</h3>
<h3 align="center">[ <a href="news-2002.html">News from 2002</a> ]</h3>
<h3 align="center">[ <a href="news-2001.html">News from 2001</a> ]</h3>
<h3 align="center">[ <a href="news-2000.html">News from 2000</a> ]</h3>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/>
<h3>
Got News?
</h3>
<p>If you would like to submit a news item, please
<a href='http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html'>join</a> the
Jakarta general and post it! Please prefix your subject with <code>[NEWS]</code>.
Be warned, though, that there is a certain element of whimsy and capriciousness
amongst we Jakartaen's when it comes to posting news to the site.
</p>
</section>
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